remember that there was the war in iraq. there was a strong push on the part of the europeans, especially britain, germany, and france not to go to the security council because they saw iran going the way of iraq. going to the security council would be a mandate for war. countries like france had been at odds with the united states over iraq and did not want to be at odds with the u.s. over iran, but wanted to stop the united states from doing what it did to iraq. we had a dramatic event where the foreign ministers of germany, in october, 2003, struck an agreement where i rran would embark on uranium enrichment. it is the ultimate in dual use technology. it had the united states stepping back and britain, germany, and france became known as the eu3. 2004, iran wentto doesn't f along with this saying they would also be a part of uranium enrichment. eu3 wasoesn't buy, submitting a proposal to iran promising help for its program. this is where you get another big in the. me. the eu3 was unable to do anything because the and the